[georgeek]

Is this the hype train? Yes to a large extent. However some people at a16z do know what they are talking about. Ex: Vijay Pande is a partner there and an (adjunct) professor of Bioengineering at Stanford. He and the team around him do have an educated guess how biotech today is different from 20 years ago.

[floki999]

I’m quite sure that a16z folks are smart, and perhaps the hyping-up does achieve an intended purpose. What bugs me is the non-stop need to feed narratives which dum-down and embellish reality.

[boringg]

Well said.